Nobody could have predicted that the invention of the bicycle in the late nineteenth century would bring about such a significant change in women’s clothing as the bloomer, which would in turn lend momentum to the movement for women’s equality. Much to the disapproval of many men at the time, women were so keen to join the cycling craze that they had to abandon the restrictive clothing and skirts they’d worn until that time and start wearing the “bifurcated garments” mentioned in the lyrics of “A woman (wearing bloomers) on a wheel”. This witty song in pastiche Victorian style for SSA & piano was written by the British composing duo Joanna Forbes L’Estrange and Alexander L’Estrange, one of ten bicycle-themed songs composed for a larger choral work entitled “Song Cycle: vive la vélorution!” Bloomers was recorded in 2018 by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Girls’ Choir as part of their celebration of the centenary of some women being given the right to vote.